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First of all, this question is mostly technical and only tangentially related to manga. However, such image annotation is mostly used by boorus, which are used mostly by manga/anime fans, so I thought it best to ask here. If this is not the correct place to post this, then I apologize. If you happen to know a better place to post this, would you mind telling me?

First Question

How do boorus annotate images so that textual data is associated with a particular region? You can see an example here. For example, if you highlight わたしのコードネームはハーモニー, a pop-up appears that provides the translation: "My codename is Harmonie.". It's basically the image equivalent of "softsubs" (subtitles that are not rasterized into the video stream, but instead dynamically loaded during runtime). Technical note: It's not important that the text appears when highlighting regions. The only important part is that text is associated with a particular region of an image. The user agent will determine what to do with this information. (If you don't understand, please don't worry about this part.)

Note: Wikimedia Commons does this as well. You can see this here. Please ensure JavaScript is enabled. Otherwise, the annotations won't appear.

Second Question (Very Important)

This is what I want to know the most: Is there an image file format that natively stores regional annotation like a booru? If you try to download the image in the link above, the annotations seem to disappear. I think that they are stored separately from the file. I want an image format that can store regional annotations within the file itself, so that the text and image are never separated.

I thought that PNG files could store annotations natively, but I'm not sure. Maybe JPEG XL can do it? I don't know. But this should exist. It would be extremely convenient for manga translation (or any translation, really).

You can read further discussion here:

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36803209
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36805041

I am more surprised about Yuta Okkotsu 乙骨憂太 and Maki Zenin 禪院真希. They had kids together? Is 祈本里香 Rika Orimoto okay with it?

No need to pirate. The series is mostly free on Kindle. Most issues are either free or $0.99. Only a few are 6 dollars. Support the author.

Bad news everywhere. This is the best pick me up

We're finally back from hiatus!

Next chapter in two weeks.

https://mangadex.org/title/85387db6-e010-4ac8-aa33-bc5fe3b71b6e/one-of-those-manga-where-a-girl-goes-oh-no-i-m-gonna-be-late-with-bread-in-her-mouth

Manga review: Akumetsu

https://mangaispolitical.noblogs.org/post/2025/04/30/review-akumetsu/

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Manga review: The Ghost in the Shell

https://mangaispolitical.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/30/review-the-ghost-in-the-shell-%e6%94%bb%e6%ae%bb%e6%a9%9f%e5%8b%95%e9%9a%8a/

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/15274756

Book of the Dead is a Manwha that takes place entirely in the afterlife/purgatory, compromised entirely of young souls which killed themselves

This Manwha has a whole lot of Gore, Psychologically focused themes and surpassing trauma

The original Korean sources were NSFW with nudity but it has been cropped for the English translation

I had been searching for a long time for a Manwha like this, and when I originally found it, it only had 6 chapters so I felt like I had **won the lottery

if the gore and traumatic aspects are not a trigger for you, I suggest you check out the first four chapters

Late spoooky one 👻

Thanks for reading!

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A wild ride from the author of One Punch Man and Mob Psycho 100.

Big developments. Demons apparently know what actual torture is.

So after reading the latest couple chapters, and some Twitter/X Reddit posts, I don't really know what to think of this series anymore 😂

I was reading chapter 1 of chainsaw man again (Started 2 years ago) and it felt like I was reading it for the first time. Like I literally forgot that it was his father's debt or that he sold his nut or even that it was the yakuza that tried to kill him. I know the very bare skeleton story, but I easily forget details in between.

Should I go to a doctor or am I overthinking it?

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Probably my favorite food manga. Shame to see it end, but it was a great series and all great things must come to an end. I only wish romance subplot had more screen time. I really really really like Sylphin.